| PCB | Printed circuit board not populated |
| PCBA | Printed circuit board populated with components |
| PCS | Single piece printed circuit board |
| Panel | Composition of one or more pieces (PCS) PCB of the same design |
| Tooling | A set of data / films / masks to manufacture the PCB |
| Stencil | To apply the solder paste on the PCB |
| NRE | Non-recurring engineering cost (all one-time cost made to execute the project, stencil and tooling can be part of it) |
| CoC | Certificate of Conformity |
| BGA | Ball Grid Array |
| SOT | Small-Outline Transistor |